Kentucky State Police detectives are on the scene of a death investigation on North Wilderness Road in Rockcastle County.

They said they got a call from the Mount Vernon Police Department after a man and woman were found dead in a home about 6:40 Thursday morning. Police say they’re not sure about the cause of death and don’t have any suspects at this time.

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Details are limited at this time, but we’ll update this story as more information becomes available.

A mobile state police crime lab and numerous police investigators are at the Portage home of missing teacher Theresa Lockhart.

Her husband, Christopher Lockhart, has been named a person-of-interest in her May 18 disappearance.

Police showed up at the home on Poplar Bluff Court late in the afternoon of Wednesday, June 7. Investigators appear to be going in and out of the house.

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A SWAT-type vehicle is parked near the home.

Theresa Lockhart is a Spanish teacher at Schoolcraft High School and has not had any contact with family or friends since May 18.

Police found her car at a park-and-ride lot off West Centre Avenue and U.S. 131.

Portage investigators say her husband has not been cooperative with them. Her disappearance was reported by her co-workers on May 20.

Twenty-six people have been charged in a $500,000 insurance fraud ring centered in Columbus, Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced Wednesday during a news conference.

Devonta Waddy, 24, of Lumpkin, Ga., was identified as the leader of the insurance fraud ring and remained on the loose as of Wednesday night. The group collectively faces 326 charges, including insurance fraud, racketeering, theft by deception, identify fraud and exploitation of the elderly.

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“This fraud ring staged phony accidents and filed fraudulent claims collecting thousands of dollars,” Hudgens said. “I said my office was going to be tough on insurance fraud, and hopefully these arrests will send a strong message that I am serious about cracking down on insurance fraud.”

The scheme was conducted from 2013 to 2016.

The following agencies assisted in the 16-month investigation: the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office, the Webster County Sheriff’s Office, the Stewart County Sheriff’s Office, the Lumpkin Police Department, the Richland Police Department and the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

Insurance companies victimized by the scam included GEICO, State Farm, Nationwide, SafeAuto, Allstate, Progressive, USAA, Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual, Safeway, Everest National, Direct Auto and The General Insurance.

The Muscogee County District Attorney’s Office will be prosecuting the cases.

Hudgens said suspects would purchase liability insurance on a vehicle then intentionally strike another vehicle and accept responsibility for it, he added.

They allegedly reported the wrecks to their insurance company but not law enforcement. They filed more than $500,000 worth of false claims, but only received $155,925 in payouts from 12 insurance companies, Hudgens said.

“We’ve had the same vehicles involved in seven or eight claims showing different owners when they all belong to one individual,” said Sherry Mowell, the chief investigator of the Georgia Insurance Commissioner’s fraud unit.

Hudgens said companies aren’t the only ones affected by insurance scam.

In 2016, it costs every insurance policy holder about $400 to $700 to pay fraudulent claims processed through their company.

“The only way insurance companies get money is from us, individually,” he said. “Every time they have to payout a fraudulent claim, it costs everyone.”

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation now confirms a missing girl from Georgia has been found and is safe.  The TBI issued a statewide AMBER alert for 14-year-old Skylee Morgan Tuesday after it was thought she may be in the Chattanooga area.  Georgia issued a Levi’s Call after she was last seen at a hotel off Interstate 75 northbound in Calhoun.

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Law enforcement officers have taken a woman named Emily Paige Scherer into custody.  Authorities believe Scherer abducted Skylee.

The woman charged in a DUI crash in Lexington that killed a Louisville police officer and UK employee first told officers that an unknown person was driving her car, according to court documents obtained by LEX 18.

Police say that Suzanne Whitlow had a blood-alcohol content of three times the legal limit when officers say she crashed her car on South Upper Street, hitting and killing UK employee Timothy Moore and Louisville Detective Jason Schweitzer. Both men were on the sidewalk when hit by the car.

The crash happened back in October.

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A grand jury indicted Whitlow in February on manslaughter, DUI, and persistent felony offender charges.

Whitlow’s attorney wants the blood test results thrown out. Whitlow’s blood was drawn at the hospital under a judge’s court order.

Court documents say that her attorney filed a motion back in April in which he argues ‘the blood test results that were obtained were done so without the consent of the defendant and in violation of her rights.”

In the prosecutors’ response earlier this month, they say the blood drawn ‘was lawfully obtained as a search warrant and court order are synonymous.’

Additional court records spell out why police got the court order to take her blood. An officer states he ‘immediately observed a strong odor of alcoholic beverages’ and that ‘Whitlow exhibited very slurred speech and her ability to communicate was choppy’. The officer also stated ‘she explained an unknown person was driving her vehicle.’

But then she said she may have been driving.

In her arrest citation, Whitlow told officers she had consumed Vodka drinks the night of the crash.

According to court records, police found a beer can on the driver’s floorboard and a pack of beer behind the driver’s seat.

The hearing on the evidence is scheduled for Thursday at 10 a.m.

Detectives in Whitley County want to figure our who their suspect is in a double murder. Police say they found two men shot dead in a home on Fred Nash Lane in Corbin Wednesday morning.

Police say around 2:30 a.m. they received a 911 call saying the two men had been shot. When they arrived investigators found both men inside a mobile home deceased. Since then, police have been canvassing the neighborhood trying to figure out who shot the men and why.

Neighbors tell LEX 18 that this situation is shocking to them. Things like this never happen on this quiet street and now they are nervous about their safety.

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However, police don’t believe there is any cause for concern.

“Right now KSP feels the neighbors are safe. Everyone in the community should not be alarmed. We feel that this is an isolated incident, an intentional act. So, we feel there is no need for alarm from the neighbors,” Trooper Lloyd Cochran told LEX 18.

Police say this investigation could last a while. They expect to be on scene most of the day. They are asking people who dont live on the road to avoid the area until the investigation is over.

Three Frankfort men have been indicted in connection with a string of robberies and a murder, according to the State Journal.

Frankfort Police began their investigation when three men robbed a Mexican restaurant at gunpoint on May 14. About a week later, three men with similar descriptions robbed a gas station at gunpoint.

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James Johnson, Emmanuel Bush and Jarqueze Bunton were charged with robbery in both of those cases.

Johnson and Bush face murder charges for allegedly shooting a 54-year-old man during a robbery at a gas station. The State Journal also reports Johnson and Bush were indicted for murder.

All three were indicted on two counts of first-degree robbery.

The body of a missing 12-year-old girl was found in the waters near Pensacola on Monday afternoon.

Naomi Jones was last seen at her home at Aspen Village Apartments at around noon on Wednesday. Her body was found at 4 p.m. on Monday near Ashland Avenue and Detroit Street.

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The same day Jones went missing, a family member contacted the sheriff’s department and missing person’s report was filed. Sheriff David Morgan said multiple authorities have assisted in the search for the child.  A team of volunteers canvassed the area where Jones was last seen.

Morgan said there are multiple suspects in this case, but didn’t give an exact amount. The investigation is still ongoing as investigators question persons of interest to figure out what happened to Jones following her disappearance.

“It’s a moment like this on life that I am reminded that life is completely and totally unfair,” Morgan said during a press conference. “You can do everything right, and things still turn out wrong.”